Chapter 605 – Release
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-Cheolkeong.
About 10 days had passed since I was locked in a dark solitary confinement when the door opened.
“Palchigong (8702). Come out.”
So I was released without incident.
Should I say that nothing special happened?
Even though he officially starved for 10 days, he was fined 1 million Zena for assaulting a management officer.
It was brutal considering the price.
Of course, I didn’t have money to pay the fine, and the fine was accumulated as my loan.
It’s a loan with an interest rate of 40% without the mother.
In short, it could be said that life as a prisoner had become difficult.
As I trudged out of the detention center building, the bright sun was welcoming me.
I’m looking around, wondering if this is somewhere…
“Mr. Bark.”
Someone is calling me.
My gaze naturally moved towards the sound of the voice.
There stood a beautiful woman dressed as a nun.
It was Nora.
“…?”
I didn’t know that I would be released today.
But I wonder how she knew that and came to meet her.
“How did you know I was coming out today? Is that also a precognitive ability?”
“Precognitive ability? Oh, I told you before, right? Precognitive ability doesn’t work that easily. It’s an information-gathering ability. I was waiting because I received information that if you’re locked up in a detention center, you’ll usually be released within 10 days!”
It appears that it was not a precognitive ability.
“Could it be that they kept waiting while I was locked up?”
Well, it might be a little touching.
“Normally, they are released within a week, but I heard that people who have been locked up for a long time are kept for up to 10 days? Bark assaulted a military officer, right? So, I expected him to be released within 10 days, and I was right.”
Even if my expectations were a little wrong, there is no reason to feel bad about having someone come out to meet me.
“Anyway, your face is better than I thought? Sniff… It smells delicious. I guess life wasn’t as bad as I thought?”
It stung.
I think the smell may have permeated my clothes a little because I had a bowl of soup before coming out.
She does not know the harsh life of solitary confinement.
I have a nice face. If it were someone else, I would have been so skinny that it would have been difficult to stand.
“This is Bark’s, right? I took care of it.”
Nora handed me the pickaxe.
I took the pickaxe she handed me with a worried look on her face.
The pickaxe she gave me was one I bought at a store for a lot of money. It is something that can be said to be my only possession at the moment.
I was too busy at the time to pay attention to it, but luckily it seems she took care of it.
I felt Nora’s trust go up another level.
Seeing that there are people who welcome me like this in such a remote area makes me feel like I haven’t wasted my life.
〈Where in the world is there anything free? They do that because they want something.〉
‘Tsk tsk. Cosmos, good intentions can be accepted as is. ‘Do people have to be so twisted to use it?’
“Hey, I have a favor to ask you…”
Nora, who gave me the pickaxe, looked at me carefully and spoke carefully.
“…”
〈Goodwill?〉
Give and take.
The world was a little cold.
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I returned to my accommodation after a long time.
For some reason, it seems like there is more to do outside than in the dorm.
“…”
As expected, the money bag I had left in my room was gone.
With this, I became completely penniless.
My current loan amount is 1.1 million jenna.
40% compound interest!
I can’t see any way to repay it.
I couldn’t even trust the magic stone mine.
There is no guarantee that the same thing will not happen again at the Maseok purchase center. Then I’ll have another 1 million Jenna in debt.
‘I’m about to escape.’
I decided.
There is nothing we can do about it.
If the world mistreats me, I just have to abandon that world.
The loan repayment period is 1 year.
Within a year, he escapes Helena and returns to earth.
Then you don’t have to repay the loan.
If Nora’s foresight is followed by the goddess of the Helena Liberation Front, success is guaranteed!
It was a perfect plan.
〈What is perfect? What kind of priestess is she? It’s a pseudo. It’s a pseudo. I don’t think the words of someone who relied on such pseudo-foreknowledge were very good… I’ve gone as far as I can, I’ve gone.〉
Despite my big decision, Cosmos was busy teasing me without any sense.
I leaned the pickaxe against one wall and lay down on the bed.
Looking at the dark ceiling, I look back on the story I shared with Nora.
Nora told me about what had happened while I was in solitary confinement.
There were more changes than I expected.
The inmates started to form groups.
The starting point was originally the prisoners serving their sentences here.
They can be said to be our seniors. They were originally soldiers of Zephyria. I don’t know what accident happened, but they were disciplined and were imprisoned in Karaz.
However, many new people who did not know anything about the world came to Karaz.
The largest proportion of Karaz prisoners captured by Gregory are Panthera gamers.
Nearly 300 people were captured.
All the demons who participated in the Demon Castle event were captured.
They were fearsome demons in Panthera, but here they were the underdogs.
For prisoners who were already serving prison sentences, Panthera gamers were perfect prey.
While I was in solitary confinement, senior inmates took money from new recruits, and robbing mines of magic stones occurred frequently.
Just like what Nora and I experienced.
In the end, Pantera users could not stand the persecution of senior inmates and came together.
In short, it can be said to be a struggle for herbivores.
And at the center of it all was a guy named Willas.
Willas was the only Panthera user whose name I knew.
He liked waiting for me… And he was also an untrustworthy guy.
Of course, not everyone joined Willas, and there were some who sought the protection of other strong powers, such as the Helena Liberation Front.
What Nora asked me to do there was to escort the recruited Panthera gamers while they were mining.
Nora knew that I was somewhat skilled in combat, and the Helena Liberation Front lacked people to protect the rapidly increasing number of herbivorous prisoners.
And she warned me before parting ways.
“Oh, the officer who assaulted Mr. Bark was brought in as a prisoner?”
“Are you new? That’s good. If I ever meet you, I’ll give you some training.”
“… Your confidence is amazing.”
Karaz does not get involved in fights between prisoners unless they lead to murder.
Unlike at the Maseok Purchase Center, you will be able to receive solid education as a senior inmate.
The time for that education came quickly.
Late at night.
When I felt like I was dying, I opened my eyes and saw someone slashing at me with a knife.
I rolled my body to avoid the knife.
And the knife was stuck in the bed in vain.
I quickly widened the distance and looked at the assassin. The room was dark, with the only moonlight coming through the window.
But I had a body that was not affected by darkness, and I could clearly see the assassin’s face.
“You…”
The assassin was the officer who was beaten by me at the Maseok purchase office. The inmate number 0937 was written on the chest of his orange prison uniform.
“… Gonggusamchil.”
“Palchigong… He wasn’t an ordinary guy after all. Did he do some mercenary work?”
His face was pale, but there was a definite resemblance.
With that crazy guy who appeared in my dreams for a while after I was discharged and made me jump up.
I felt like I finally knew why I hit the seizure button.
I know that my fist not only fractured my orbital bone, but also my nose and jawbone were all completely shattered… Seeing that it was healed in such a short period of time, I was able to once again feel the wonder of Zephyria’s cutting-edge medicine.
Well… The purpose of Gonggusamchil was obvious.
“Is it revenge?”
“Revenge? On you worthless bastard? This is punishment for daring to touch an officer of the Zephyria army! First, I will cut off your limbs and throw you out the window.”
Even when I wasn’t a prisoner, I was beaten to the point of blood clots, and now that I’ve been nerfed with a magic suppressor, I don’t know what I can trust and rush towards.
“That’s good. I was also wondering when I would take care of the new recruit who recently arrived.”
The guy’s knife was emitting a soft blue glow.
It is proof that magical power flows.
“Duh!!”
Gonggu Samchil thrusts his knife without hesitation.
As befits a soldier, it was a clean attack without any unnecessary elements.
But to me, it is nothing but insignificant.
There was no need to avoid it, but are you weak? It needed to be seen.
The knife slipped through my armpit in vain. My thick arms wrap around the arm holding the knife like a snake.
And when I applied a light force, the guy’s arm snapped and the white bone protruded through the flesh.
“Keuuk!”
The guy’s eyes widen from the pain of his arm being broken.
“This is just the beginning. What should I do if it hurts so much?”
My fist got stuck in Gonggusamchil’s face.
-Right!
The guy’s nose collapses and his front teeth fall out.
At that point, Gonggusamchil’s eyes were already open.
He said he would cut off my arms and legs, so I decided to be more merciful than him and break my arms and legs.
-Wow! Wow! Wood-duk!!
“Kwaek!!”
When Samchil broke his last leg, he seemed to be unable to bear it and returned to his senses from running away.
I grabbed the guy with the broken limb by the collar and held him out the window.
If I let go, he’ll fall down.
“Ha, Hadimara!!”
Maybe because my teeth are gone, the pronunciation of Gonggusamchil is a bit off.
“Don’t do it?”
“… Ha, please don’t do it.”
His face is full of anger, as if it is quite humiliating for him to pray to me.
“Give is an order.”
After saying that, I let go of the hand that was holding my collar.
-You bastard-!!
Gonggu Samchil’s shout echoed through the dark city. Then there was a dull sound, and it became quiet.
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The bodies of Zephyrians were stronger than those of Earthlings.
And this is only the third floor.
He wouldn’t have died.
Maybe.
Even if he died, the punishment would be solitary confinement and a fine anyway. For me, whose light has already exceeded 1 million Zena, it is there.
A medivac ship can be seen approaching from the northern Karaz Command building. After seeing that, I closed the window and lay down on the bed again.
As expected, 0937 wasn’t dead, so no one came to visit me until daybreak.
